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STRANGER BY THE LAKE (L\u2019inconnu du lac)<\/p>\n

Strand Releasing
\nReviewed for Shockya by Harvey Karten. Data-based on Rotten Tomatoes
\nGrade: B
\nDirector: Alain Guiraudie
\nScreenwriter: Alain Guiraudie
\nCast: Pierre Deladonchamps, Christophe Paou, Patrick d\u2019Assum\u00e7ao, J\u00e9r\u00f4me Chappatte
\nScreened at: Review 2, NYC, 1\/14\/14
\nOpens: January 24, 2014<\/p>\n

One can imagine this movie done by another director as broad comedy. Instead of possessing the title \u201cStranger by the Lake\u201d (\u201cL\u2019inconnu du lac\u201d being the French title translated as \u201cUnknown of the Lake\u201d), the theater lights would exhibit it as \u201cCruising for a Bruising.\u201d Simply put, Alain Guiraudie\u2019s film, a meditation on homosexual attraction and death, turns on a murder done by one man who had picked up his partner at a French beach known for cruising, and then murdered him for no reason other than his having grown tired of the relationship. Guiraudie, the forty-nine year old director from Villefranche-de-Rouergue, Aveyron, France and who directs from his birthplace, most recently directed \u201cThe King of Escape,\u201d about a middle-aged homosexual who sells farm machinery and falls in love with a young woman. His latest entry captured for him a Best Director award at Cannes\u2019 Un certain regard, or \u201cA particular outlook,\u201d which features works that are original and different and which seek international recognition.
\n\u201cStranger by the Lake\u201d is indeed \u201cdifferent,\u201d as no sound track accompanies the action, the entire story is minimalist, taking place exclusively on a rocky beach by a lake and its adjoining parking lot, and deliberately avoids any background for us about its characters. One might guess that Guiraudie is commenting on the very nature of one brand of gay sex: that its followers do not wish to know anything about their \u201cconquests,\u201d that at least some appear to become tired of their relationships however brief, and that in one case a fellow dumps the partner of whom he\u2019s tired by literally dumping him\u2014drowning him in the lake.<\/p>\n

One side character, the heavy-set Henri (Patrick d\u2019Assum\u00e7ao), is the most interesting, a loner who has allegedly broken up with a girlfriend and who spends his three-weeks\u2019 vacation in the cruising area without wanting sex. But \u201cStranger\u201d is anchored by Franck (Pierre Deladonchaps), a good-looking young man who for reasons unknown takes a fancy to the tubby Henri as though he\u2019d prefer to chat with him rather than to get down to the business of that beach.<\/p>\n

And the business of the beach will remind some in the audience of the 1970s and 1980s in New York where anonymous sex had been carried out in bathhouses without much precaution by gays in the slam-bam-thank-you-sir vein. Franck who has developed an attraction to Michel (Christophe Paou), is apparently so hot for the guy that instead of running in the opposite direction as soon as he witnesses his love-of-the-moment drowning his partner, that he encourages Michel. This affords us in the audience extended soft-porn sex involving everything from cunnilingus to intercourse. (I much prefer what I saw in \u201cBlue is the Warmest Color,\u201d which has character delineation, and of course, \u201cBlue\u201d deals with lesbian attraction rather than the proclivities of men seen here in full frontal nudity.)
\nInspecteur Damroder (J\u00e9r\u00f4me Chappatte) makes frequent trips to the scene of the crime after the victim\u2019s body has surfaced. One might assume that he is the voice of the director, in questioning some of the denizens of the beach, wondering \u201cwhy you people witness a murder and do nothing about it\u201d). Indeed the folks on these rocks do indeed display a casual air about what they\u2019ve witnessed, though Franck appears to court the killer for the excitement of the bond, and damn the consequences.<\/p>\n

Guiraudie\u2019s style may be off-putting to those who generally patronize mainstream cinema and more accessible indies, but even by the standards of the indies \u201cStranger\u201d is unusual. The atmosphere is noirish (Hitchcockian in that we know the killer from the beginning), the dialogue is held to a minimum, the murder is photographed as a long shot to give us a view of the surroundings. \u201cStranger\u201d is equipped with an ambiguous ending, not unlike what we\u2019ve seen in the Robert Redford vehicle \u201cAll is Gone\u201d and in the Israeli thriller \u201cBig Bad Wolves.\u201d Since Guiraudie had been awarded Best Director during the Cannes festival, we can bet that his personal, original style has much to do with that.<\/p>\n

Unrated. 97 minutes. \u00a9 2014 by Harvey Karten, Member, New York Film Critics Online<\/p>\n

Story \u2013 B
\nActing \u2013 B+
\nTechnical \u2013 B
\nOverall \u2013 B<\/p>\n

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